Meta Uncovers Massive Social Media Cyber Espionage Operations Across South Asia
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Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks.
"Each of these...
Tonto Team Uses Anti-Malware File to Launch Attacks on South Korean Institutions
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Apr 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat
South Korean education, construction, diplomatic, and political institutions are at the receiving end of new attacks perpetrated by a China-aligned threat actor...
Paperbug Attack: New Politically-Motivated Surveillance Campaign in Tajikistan
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A little-known Russian-speaking cyber-espionage group has been linked to a new politically-motivated surveillance campaign targeting high-ranking government officials, telecom services, and public service infrastructures in Tajikistan.
The intrusion set,...
Kubernetes RBAC Exploited in Large-Scale Campaign for Cryptocurrency Mining
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Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananKubernetes / Cryptocurrency
A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency...
Iranian Government-Backed Hackers Targeting U.S. Energy and Transit Systems
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Apr 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / SCADA
An Iranian government-backed actor known as Mint Sandstorm has been linked to attacks aimed at critical infrastructure in the U.S. between late...
U.S. and U.K. Warn of Russian Hackers Exploiting Cisco Router Flaws for Espionage
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Apr 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Cyber Espionage
U.K. and U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Russian nation-state actors exploiting now-patched flaws in networking equipment from Cisco...
Pakistani Hackers Use Linux Malware Poseidon to Target Indian Government Agencies
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Apr 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware
The Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Transparent Tribe used a two-factor authentication (2FA) tool used by Indian government agencies as...
Google Uncovers APT41’s Use of Open Source GC2 Tool to Target Media and Job...
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Apr 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Cloud Security
A Chinese nation-state group targeted an unnamed Taiwanese media organization to deliver an open source red teaming tool known as Google...
New QBot Banking Trojan Campaign Hijacks Business Emails to Spread Malware
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Apr 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananFinancial Security / Malware
A new QBot malware campaign is leveraging hijacked business correspondence to trick unsuspecting victims into installing the malware, new findings from Kaspersky...
Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen
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Apr 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cyber Security
Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database...
